Attorney General Jeff Sessions slammed critics of his immigration policies as being part of the "fuzzy-headed left" during a speech at a law enforcement conference in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Knox News reported.
He vowed to continue his strict enforcement of immigration laws and deal with a backlog of such cases by adding 35 prosecutors and 18 immigration judges to border states.
To press his point, Session said he wasn’t shedding any tears over the recent ICE raid on a meatpacking plant in Bean Station, Tennessee.
In that raid last month almost 100 workers were detained on suspicion of being in the country illegally in the largest such workplace action since President Donald Trump entered the White House, according to CNN.
"You don’t get to get an advantage in this country by having large numbers of illegal workers working for you," Sessions said in the speech on Tuesday, according to Knox News. "I’m not shedding tears around this. You don’t get to benefit from being in this country and looking around the world for the cheapest worker you can find. That’s just not good policy for this country."
Stephanie Teatro, co-director of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, countered that "Ironically, the employer is the only character in this story that hasn’t paid any price – he has yet to be arrested or face charges and the plant is still operational."
Teatro added that “ICE could have decided to audit this employer and forced him to pay fines. Instead, ICE made a decision to engage in the most aggressive, violent form of enforcement it could take at this worksite, leaving 160 children without a parent from one day to the next."
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